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WW2 AVRO Lancaster long range RAF heavy bomber

The AVRO Lanchaster Long Range RAF heavy bomber was the
mainstay of RAF Bomber Command's fleet during the latter part of World War
2.

A.V.Roe & Co Ltd (AVRO)

Alliot Verdon Roe (Founder of the AVRO
WW1 fighters) built his first plane in Putney, South West London in 1907. A prize of
£2,500 (over a million pounds in today's money) was offered for the first
flight around the famous Brooklands Motor Racing Track. The first engine he
fitted, a 6hp JAP engine was not powerful enough. He fitted a more powerful 24hp
engine in May 1908. Roe used a tow rope attached to cars to test his flying
machine along the finishing straight of the race track. In June 1908 he managed
to get 150 feet into the air. Alliot Verdon Roe was the first British Subject to
leave the ground in an aeroplane of his own design. The original aircraft was
destroyed in a sudden gust of wind very soon after its first flight. A.V.Roe
carried on designing aircraft and formed A.V.Roe & Co Ltd (AVRO) in 1910.
The company produced many excellent fighters and bombers. The most famous being
the Dam Busting RAF AVRO Lancaster four engined heavy bomber. Hawker
Siddeley merged with the company and they themselves became part of British
Aerospace. This airworthy replica and exact copy of Roe's wooden workshop shed
were built by the staff of the Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, England